Head-rest and attachment for railway-car seats



(No Model.)

H. D. WILSON. HEAD REST AND ATTAGHMBNT FOB. RAILWAY UAR SEATS.

Patented'FeB.-13,1a8s.

UGL/1263565 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY D. WILSON, OF ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA. HEAD-REST AND ATTACHMENT FOR RAILWAY-CAR SEATS.

(SPECIFICATION forming part-of Letters Patent No. 272,395, dated February 13, 1883.

' Application inea october 31,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern l and in Fig. 4., by the different positions of these Be it known that I, HENRY D. WILsoN, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Abbeville, in the county of Abbeville and State of 5 South Carolina,have invented certain new and usefnl Improvements in Head- Rests and Atel tachments for the Same 'In Itailway-Gar-Seat Backs, of which Ithe following is aspeciiication, reference being had therein to the accompanyro ing drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in head-rests for the seats of railway-cars, or for other seats, and also in attachments to the backs of seats, in which the head-rests may be I5 applied for use in seats now in use without any alteration, and which can be easily attached for use at night and be removed in the daytime,all of which will be hereinaftermore fully described and claimed. zo In ,the drawings forming part of this specication,Figure lis a side elevation of the rear side of a car seat back with the attachment.

applied. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section on line x oy ot' Fig. I. Fig. 3 is an end'view of 25 the attachment. Fig. 4' shows threevvays Aof adjusting the head-rest. Fig. 5 shows afront view of the adjustable bars.

be placed at any angle which may be desired. To retain the head rest H at the angle and proper height required a spring,D,is attached to the edge of the stile, as seen in Fig. 3. To this spring D is a catch-plate, d, which enters 5 5 the notches g g' lin the edges of the bars Gr Gr', and prevents the movement oi' the barsin either direction, as may be seen in Fig. 5; and E isa strap to prevent D from going out too far. F is the front side of the back. 6o I do not conne myself to the exact relative i position ot' the two frames, as they may be differently placed as to each other for narrow seatbacks. y

I am aware that frames for carrying head 6 5 .rests have been used as attachments to the backs of seats, wherestraps and buckles are employed for fastening the frame to the back. In my device .I use a fra-me above and below, which are connected by spiral springs which 7o are .self-adjusting, and but little timeis lost in applying the frames to railway-seats at night and removal in the morning, and hence there is economy of time in using my frames. I a Glaim A 75 Aand A are two frames, which are to be apl. In railway-seats, the combination of the plied to the back ot' a car-seat,B. These frames two independent frames having respectively 3o may be made either of metal or wood'. The curved straps to t the top and bottom edges drawings represent the frames as being of ofthe seat-back, and the spiral springs wherewood, having metal straps a a', curved atA opby the frames are held in position, substan- 8o posite sides to tit on the rounded edges ot' the tially as and for the purpose described.

T seat-back,and bent at the other ends to support. 2. rIlhe head rest hingedby short links to 35 the frame. When the frames are of metal the twoindependently-notched rods which are suitstraps are unnecessary, as the hooks can be ably curved to produce a tilting action of the made a part of the stiles when the fratrie is cast head-rest, and which rods can be moved side 85 of metal. These frames A and A are ccnnectby-side, incombiuation with a spring-catch to ed by springs G C of any form, spiral springs `enter the notches in both of the rods and retain y 4o being shown in the drawings. These springs both of them in any desired position, all subare made strong enough to keep the frames in stanti-ally as and for thevpurpose described. their places when fastened to the back of' the- Intestimony whereof I afx my signature in 9o seat. In each stile of the upper frame, A, there presence of two witnesses.

is a socket extending through it in which sockl T' 45 ets are fitted the hat bars G andG of the head- HENRY D' Xx ILSON' rests H H. These flat bars G G' are connected Witnesses: to the head-rest H by a hinge-joint and links, T. J. EDWARDS, G2, secured to the rear side ot' the head-rest H, i J. W. RITTER, Jr.

bars, it will be seen that the head-rest H can 5o y 

